Well strainer and cleaner



Fetenteol May i924.

unites srar es rarest o LYMAN LYNCH HARDEJRIIAN, E LEAVEIt'W'OE-TH, KILNSAS.

VIELL STBAENEB AND Application filed May 2 1922. Serial No. 5645,:568.

To all whom it may concern. thereby greatly reducing or entirely stop- Be it known that I, LYMAN LYNCH ping the flow of Water through the strainer HARDEMAN, a citizen of the United States, or screen and rendering the Well useless, it residing at 9th Avenue and Michi an, in the Will be apparentthat my invention is a de- 5 city of Leavenworth, in the county of cided improvement over Wells built accord- Leavenvvorthand State of Kansas, have ining to standard practice. For example, the vented a new and useful W ell Strainer and pipes 2 are slit at intervals of different Cleaner. spacing on each quarter point whereby My invention relates to obtaining Water Water bearing strata may enter and be con 10 from under ground sources and keeping ducted down the pipes into the Well. When the and, ilt, ta, l d fr under the strainer becomes sanded in, it can be ground Well strainers or screens follows: nsanded or l an d and the su roundmg Figure 1 is a vertical view of the entire Water c ns restored by forcing Water at 11 high pressure through the slits in the pipes 15 Figure 2 is a vertical section thro h 2, thereby outing the surrtnuiding sand,

str in d h ft f ll, silt, etc., loose and conducting it into the Figure 3 is a horizontal section through e l here it may be removed. strainer of Well, i t hat 1 claim and desire to secure by Figure 4 is a vertical View of the slit L@it@1-P&te11ti$1 pipe strainer and cleaner. 1. A well shaft having strainer inciud Th Well shaft 1 is k i t th wat ing a plurality of vertical pipes, the ends hearing strata in any Well known ma of. which communicate With space Within The shaft is usually provided with a pefothe shaft, the intermediate portions of the rated strainer 01- s reen o th l w r d pipes being outside the shaft and having to permit the Water to flow i to the ll, slits therein to receive water from the sur- This is common practice. According to my rounding Water bearing strata. 7o i ti 1 id a l lit f 11%; pipes 2. A Y VGll shaft having a strainer, includ- 2 arranged in circular series and fa t d ing vertical pipes outside the shaft provided to the outside of the Well strainer or screen. With slits, the respective ends of the pipes 33 The pipes are arranged longitudinally of communicating with the interior of the the shaft and have their lower ends in open shaft. communication With the space confined A Well shaft comprising a tube and a Within the strainer near the bottom, the plurality of pipes on the outside of the pipes extending 0n the outside of the tube having openings, the ends of the pipes 35 strainer to various elevations with the upcomn'iunicating with the interior of the per ends extending into the shaft to be shaft. accessible for future use. Since the chic 4. A Well shaft comprising a tube and a difficulty in obtaining water from nderplurality of pipes on the outside of the tube ground sources in large quantities through having openings, the ends of the pipes com- 40 a Well is caused by the fact that the flow municating with the interior of the shaft of Water in the Well through the strainer or and the pipes being arranged at various screen will in time carry sand, silt, etc., elevations above the bottom of the shaft. against the strainer or screen and choke it,

(this is generally termed sanding in) and LYMAN LYNCH HARDEMAN. 

